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CVE record · CVE-2021-37851

Local Privilege Escalation in ESET product for Windows

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: ESET) at 11 May 2022, 14:08 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET NOD32 Antivirus
  • affected 11.2 to before 15.1.12.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Internet Security
  • affected 11.2 to before 15.1.12.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Smart Security Premium
  • affected 11.2 to before 15.1.12.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus
  • affected 6.0 to before 9.0.2046.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security
  • affected 6.0 to before 9.0.2046.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Server Security for Microsoft Windows Server
  • affected 8.0 to before 9.0.12012.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET File Security for Microsoft Windows Server
  • affected 6.0 8.0.12013.0
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
  • affected 6.0 to before 8.0.10020.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for IBM Domino
  • affected 6.0 to before 8.0.14011.0 custom
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server
  • affected 6.0 to before 8.0.15009.0 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2021-37851
CNA
ESET
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-280
Tags
Published
11 May 2022
Updated
16 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.3 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (ESET)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.